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RS/6000 tcsh echo */

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Thu Dec 26 12:17:36 1991

To: probe@Athena.MIT.EDU, bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 91 12:17:24 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>


The right way to do this is to write "*/." instead of "*/".  Using "/" at the
end in a pathname to ask for a directory is not portable (some versions of AIX
ls will not follow a symlink to a directory without the trailing ".").

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